The NHS is not yet smoke-free, but it’s time that it was, says Dr Mary Black at Public Health England in The BMJ. She argues that tolerating tobacco smoking on NHS premises is a form of collusion. Staff who smoke in NHS uniforms are sending a very clea

PATIENTS and staff will be stubbing out their cigarettes as they go smoke free at a mental health trust which covers Barnet, Enfield and Haringey (BEH). Smoking has been banned on the premises and in the grounds across the NHS trust’s hospitals as part o

Sherwood Forest Hospitals Trust, which runs the sites, has pledged to make its hospital sites smoke-free in 2017. As well as urging people not to light up, patrols will give advice about quitting, talk to people about littering and issue fines to repeat o

it seems the Trusts have little choice other than to accept that it’s a damage limitation exercise and provide facilities for those who are determined not to help themselves. As long as these facilities are away from people who don’t wish to smoke, it se

Public Health England (PHE) chief executive Duncan Selbie has written to every NHS Trust asking them to execute the ban after a study by the British Thoracic Society warned that NHS hospitals were falling”woefully short” of doing so.

has been caught smoking dangerously close to medical gas exhaust pipes in a flagrant breach of hospital policy. The hospital, which has implemented a strict no smoking ban throughout its premises since January 2014, has asked for the man to be removed fr

NHS Lanarkshire has backed new legislation making smoking in a vehicle with anyone under 18 against the law. The new law introduced by the Scottish Government, came into force on Monday and carries a fixed penalty of £100 for those who break it. Latest r

A survey of 140 hospitals for the British Thoracic Society found that only one in 16 fully enforced a no-smoking policy. Enforcement includes giving people information on the trust’s smoke-free policy, as well as policing hospital grounds and putting up

There are calls to make all South West hospital sites, including Cornwall, tobacco-free. They are being urged to take steps to improve the health of their patients and staff. Public Health England (PHE) Chief Executive Duncan Selbie has written to ever

All NHS hospitals should put a blanket ban on smoking on their grounds, the head of Public Health England (PHE) has said. A number of trusts have introduced such rules, but others have shied away, or failed to enforce the bans when patients, visitors or